An Experimental Study On The Enquiry Reading In Senior High School English Teaching

Since the middle of 20th century, the Theory of Constructivism has been very popular in the world. The constructivism shows that in senior high schools, the students can gain the knowledge from a wide variety of aspects such as social cultural backgrounds, the help from their teachers and some necessary and useful studying materials. Taking the Theory of Constructivism as the theoretical framework, the writer of this thesis will combine this theory with her daily English teaching to do some further research. The thesis is"An Experimental Study on the Enquiry Reading in Senior High School English Teaching"In the field of foreign languge teaching, it is usually believed that the process of reading is affected by many factors, such as personal experiences, different attitudes, emotions and so on. This study intends to investigate individual differences in reading, the reasons behind them and what teachers should do in coping with these differences to make teaching of English reading more efficient and thus enhance the level of students'reading ability.As a teacher, to find the differences between successful English readers and unsuccessful ones, I studied some typical cases by testing, questionaires, classroom observing, talking and individual analysing. The current commonly-existing question in the teaching of reading and the students'demands of teaching of reading has been raised in this thesis. On the basis of the Theory of Constructivism and the Theory of Reading Models and their implications to teaching of reading,along with the specific objectives of students'competence of reading comprehension in the College Entrance Examination and in the New Curricular Standards,I have courageously tried out the effective means and experiments of developing students'ability of reading comprehension. Furthermore,the scientific statistics of the trial results fully state that the widest improvement of students'capacity of reading comprehension is undoubtedly feasible so long as teachers of English in senior high schools devote themselves to the study of reading theories,digging into teaching assiduously and blaze new trails boldly. The results also show to us that the enquiry reading in English classes is feasible and doable.